At least the ones that fly. The Recaro company is the world market leader for economy class seats – and is under pressure to make the seats more and more comfortable and lighter at the same time.
In the lobby there is a memento of the old days: plushly revamped with thick orange upholstery, massive armrests that are so wide that even the ashtray that was obligatory in the 1970s can easily be accommodated. Is actually a three-seat row from the wood class. But as voluminous as the thing is, it can only have been comfortable back then, when this piece of Recaro furniture was in a Lufthansa Boeing 707 flew around the world. Unless you were a non-smoker.